The history of New South Wales; with an account of Van Diemen’s Land [Tasmania, New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and other Australian Settlements.

Comprising a complete view of the progress and prospects of gold mining in Australia. London : Sampson Low, 1862. Two volumes, octavo, blind embossed red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine (rebacked, preserving original spines, repairs to head and foot of spines and along the hinges and joints), contemporary owner’s name to title page, pp. xvi; 544; x; [blank]; 576; 16 (publisher’s catalogue, in smaller format), internally clean, a good set.

Flanagan was an Irish journalist who emigrated to Sydney in 1840. He worked on a number of publications, including employment by Sir Henry Parkes, and wrote a series of articles on the Aborigines of Australia published posthumously in 1888. He began work on a History of New South Wales in the 1850s, taking the manuscript to London in 1860 where he died before it was published. His work covers the arrival of the early European explorers, British settlement and inland exploration, the consist system and its abandonment, war in New Zealand, separation of Port Phillip, indigenous affairs and the discovery of gold.

Ferguson, 9634.